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Ewuare Osayande

Ewuare Osayande is a political activist, poet and author of more than eleven books including his latest works Black Anti-Ballistic Missives: Resisting War/Resisting Racism and Misogyny and the Emcee: Exposing the Exploitation of Black Women in Hip Hop. He resides in Philadelphia, PA where he is the co-founder of POWER, a grassroots initiative that educates and empowers participants to fight and resist oppression. He can be contacted at [email protected].

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Who We Be: Defining Black Identity in 21st Century America

By Ewuare Osayande Guest Commentator

“… the Negro is sort of a seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world – a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking…

"… the Negro is sort of a seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world – a world which yields…

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Art at War: Revolutionary Art Against Cultural Imperialism

By Ewuare Osayande Guest Commentator

What does it mean to create poetry in a time of war? What does it mean to create any art during a time when the United States, the sole superpower on the planet, is primed to do what Nazi Germany wished it could have done? For one, it means to create at a time when…

What does it mean to create poetry in a time of war? What does it mean to create any art during a time when the United…

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